I am using lprng 3.8.5 that comes with SUSE 8.0 to print. I set things up in
YAST2 and while it works it prints directly to the lpd daemon on the remote
printer. I think this is because SUSE 8.0 by default sets force_localhost
parameter to false in the printcap file as follows :-
remote:\
:cm=lpdfilter method=raw color=yes:\
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/remote/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/remote/acct:\
:ar:force_localhost@:\
:tr=:cl:sh:
If I edit this to remove the @ then spooling should be enabled (as verified
by doing a checkpc -V -Premote). However if I do a lpq -Premote I get an
error :-
Printer: remote is raw@localhost
Printer: raw@arguus - ERROR: spool queue for 'raw' does not exist on server
arguus.crg.co.nz
non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc -f'
Looking through the lprng archives I can see some comment that others using
a similar version of lprng have experienced a similar problem and upgrading
to a later version has fixed this for some. Does anybody have a later SUSE
specific RPM I can use? I have downloaded some RPM's from www.lprng.org but
these have a number of dependencies and didn't work so well for me when I
forced the install :(
David
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